Playboy's Top Party Schools for 2010

Playboy's ranking of the Top 10 party schools was released today, making it the 5th time the publication has published the list in its 57-year history. In 2009, Playboy announced it would make the list an annual feature in the magazine. The magazine’s first list, Top 40 Party Colleges, appeared in the January 1987 issue with Chico State taking the #1 spot.

This year's #1 goes to the University of Texas at Austin (who was also ranked 7th in the Princeton Review ranking). Arizona State is the only school to appear in all five of Playboy's rankings.

What's New Also included in this year’s ranking is a “Best in Class” series which gives honorable mention to 23 additional schools in certain categories. These categories range from “Hottest Cheerleaders” (USC) to “Best Halloween Party” (Ohio University, which also receives recognition as one of the nation's best college traditions).

Methodology The ranking is determined by Playboy’s editors, with input from the magazine’s campus representatives, models, photographers, online voters, and student readers.

Playboy's Top 10 Party Schools 2010

1. University of Texas at Austin
2. West Virginia University 3. University of Wisconsin-Madison
4. University of Miami 5. East Carolina University
6. Arizona State University 7. Rollins College
8. University of California-Santa Barbara 9. Plymouth State University
10. University of Iowa

"Best in Class"

Hottest Girls: Arizona State UniversityBest Halloween Party: Ohio University Best Living Mascot: Uga, the University of Georgia bulldogBest Unofficial Mascot: Scrotie, of the RISD hockey team the NadsBest Fish-In-A-Barrel College: Sarah Lawrence, where 73 percent of the student body is femaleBest Harmless Prank: Antiquing—dusting your friend's face with flourBest College Sports Bar: The Houndstooth in Tuscaloosa, AlabamaHottest Cheerleaders: The USC Song GirlsBest Student Section, Basketball: MSU's Izzone, named after Coach IzzoBest College Radio Station: WSOU, Seton HallBest College Drinking Innovation: The Flabongo, a beer bong made out of a lawn flamingoHottest Major: Nursing [check out UNC-Chapel Hill]Best Catholic Party School: MarquetteBest College Sandwich: Fat Philly from the Rutgers grease trucks: two chicken fingers, cheesesteak, gyro meat, two mozzarella sticks, white and red sauces, lettuce and tomatoBest Ivy League Party School: N/ABest Course: Honors College 299: Far Side Entomology, at Oregon State UniversityWorst Course: Tree Climbing, CornellHottest New College Sport: Sand volleyball (begins next academic year)College That Sounds Fun But Isn’t: UNLVBest Surf School: University of HawaiiBest Name For Beer Pong: Beer PongBest College-Supported Art Project: Brandeis's Liquid Latex Body Art Show. Hottest College Girlfriend: Baylor's Rachel Glandorf, who dated [and is now engaged to] Texas QB Colt McCoyWorst Party School: Tie between BYU and Oral Roberts

Previous Rankings

2009

1. University of Miami
2. University of Texas - Austin 3. San Diego State University
4. University of Florida 5. University of Arizona
6. University of Wisconsin - Madison 7. University of Georgia
8. Louisiana State University 9. University of Iowa
10. West Virginia University

2006

1. University of Wisconsin - Madison
2. UC Santa Barbara 3. Arizona State
4. Indiana 5. San Diego State
6. Florida State 7. Ohio University
8. University of Georgia 9. University of Tennessee
10. McGill University